Ellenden Wood

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Ellenden Wood
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Entering Ellenden Wood - geograph.org.uk - 1559588.jpg
Location Kent
Grid reference TR 101 624 [1]
InterestBiological
Area90.6 hectares (224 acres) [1]
Notification 1985 [1]
Location map Magic Map

Ellenden Wood is a 90.6-hectare (224-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Whitstable in Kent. [1] [2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2. [3] and a Special Area of Conservation [4]

This wood has diverse flora with over 250 species of vascular plants and 300 of fungi. Insects include 3 species which are nationally rare, and there are mammals such as wood mice, dormice and two species of shrew. [5]

Several public footpaths cross the site.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Designated Sites View: Ellenden Wood". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Map of Ellenden Wood". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  3. ↑ Ratcliffe, Derek, ed. (1977). A Nature Conservation Review. Vol. 2. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 49–50. ISBN   0521-21403-3.
  4. ↑ "Designated Sites View: Blean Complex". Special Area of Conservation. Natural England. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Ellenden Wood citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 5 February 2018.

51°19′19″N1°00′50″E / 51.322°N 1.014°E / 51.322; 1.014

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